Dear Wamug'ers, Million thanks to all of you for the many suggestions - Daniel, Roger, James, Rhonda and Frank, I do appreciate it very much.
I still do not know what has gone wrong with my very faithful G5, but due to lack of time at the moment I have left the machine with Daniel to look at. I will however let you know what the problem is once found. Shay, the memory cards have been in the machine for many years, but maybe needs to be reseated. This machine has been so reliable that I was literally in shock last night, but slowly overcoming the condition by talking myself into accepting that after some 9 years or possibly a bit longer, this computer has given me much more than one should expect. Last night I did go on Apple's G5 forum and lo and behold someone had posted exactly the same problem as mine. There was no reply when I logged off around 23:30, and have not checked the site as yet. Again, my heartfelt gratitude for the many suggestions and ideas. Good night all & kind regards, Philippe Chaperon 2010/8/13 Frank Salleo <[email protected]>: > > Hi > I remember my G5 doing that when it went off during a power failure. > Resetting the power management (cuda switch) fixed it. The instructions are > at > <http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1939> > This is a last resort and resets your hardware back to default values. If it > doesn't work it is normally a hardware fault. > > Cheers > Frank > > > On 13/08/10 8:46 AM, "Ronda Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 13/08/2010, at 12:44 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 13/8/10 12:30 AM, "Philippe Chaperon" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Good evening All, >>>> >>>> My G5 PPC 1.8 dual will not start properly. There are no start up chime, >>>> the >>>> screen remains black and the small start 'on' light, on the tower and on >>>> the >>>> flat screen, flashes 3 times with a break and 3 times again ad infinitum. >>>> >>>> I have tried restarting it many times now with the same problem. >>>> >>>> Has someone got a solution that can help, or is this possibly a hardware >>>> failure? >>>> >>>> Any advice will be much appreciated. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Hi Philippe >>> >>> Discount all the cables and leave for about 5mins, then just plug it back in >>> and try it again. >>> Sometimes, if that doesn't fix you have to repeat, but also take the battery >>> out. >>> I've had that happen once before and the above fixed it. >>> Other times, it was a few more problems to work through. >>> But that's a start ;) >>> >>> Kind Regards >>> Daniel >> >> >> Hi Philippe, >> >> If Daniel's first suggestion doesn't fix the problem, try checking the RAM. >> When the power light flashes three times, this normally means that none of >> the >> RAM banks passed memory testing. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 >> 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm >> >> OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > __________________________________________________________________ > Frank Salleo Faculty OSH and Facilities Coordinator > > Faculty of Minerals and Energy > Faculty of Sustainability, Environmental And Life Sciences > Murdoch University > Perth, Western Australia > Phone 9360 2623 > University Registered 'Provider Code. 00125J' > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > > -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
